Improvement in albums



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED HATEAWAY, oF cEAELEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 67,5110, dated AugustG, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED HATIIAWAY, of Charlestown, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a `new and usefulImprovement in Photographic Albums; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the aunexed drawings making part-of this specifr cation,'inwhich an album is shown so as to present one of the pages and one page.of the index.

The album for receiving the photographs is constructed in the usual andfamiliar manner, so as to present the faces of two photographs placedback to back in each leaf. These photographs'are inserted from thebottom of the y page through a space left between the central boardforming the leaf and the fine paper covering each page. I cut arectangular opening, B, through the paper covering the page immediatelybelow the opening, through which the.

photograph is shown. i

An autograph, or the name of the person whose picture is inserted, beingwritten on a Y slip of paper, the latter may be introduced through theslit in the bottom of the page in such manner as to show the autographor name through the rectangular opening aforementioned.

The pages of the album are consecutively numbered, and correspondingnumbers are marked at suitable intervals upon the pages appropriated forthe index. Opposite the latter numbers there are rectangular holes G inthe paper covering the face of the page. This paper is attached on thebottom and top edges, but on the side it is attachedonly above and belowthe openings C, so that an opening is left through which papers having aname written upon them may be inserted, and the name shown through theopening-G.V

By this means I form an adjustable index to the album, which may bechanged when necessary.

An autograph-album may be made on the same principle as theabove-described index, the names being inserted in the same manner, theleaves for photographs being omitted.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A photographie album with an adjustable index, constructedsubstantially as set forth.

2. An autographic album with openings C in its pages, when soconstructed that the autographs may be inserted or removed through theside of the page, substantially in the manner set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ALFRED HATHAWAY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ROGERS, JOSEPH B. SPEAE.

